{"id":22075,"date":"2025-04-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=22075"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:36:08","slug":"protecting-our-lgbtq-friends-and-neighbors-merkley-colleagues-speak-in-support-of-equality-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/protecting-our-lgbtq-friends-and-neighbors-merkley-colleagues-speak-in-support-of-equality-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting our LGBTQ+ Friends and Neighbors \u2013 Merkley, Colleagues speak in Support of Equality Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Protecting our LGBTQ+ Friends and Neighbors \u2013 Merkley, Colleagues speak in Support of Equality Act\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wFI49weLTMk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Merkley and Representative Takano led the bicameral reintroduction of the Equality Act, which would provide civil rights protections based on gender identity and sexual orientation. As LGBTQ+ Americans\u2014particularly transgender people\u2014remain under attack in the halls of government and in our communities, passing these protections has never been more important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/\/es\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-takano-lead-reintroduction-of-historic-equality-act-to-ban-discrimination-against-lgbtq-americans\/\">https:\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-takano-lead-reintroduction-of-historic-equality-act-to-ban-discrimination-against-lgbtq-americans<\/a>\/<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Merkley and Representative Takano led the bicameral reintroduction of the Equality Act, which would provide civil rights protections based on gender identity and sexual orientation. As LGBTQ+ Americans\u2014particularly transgender people\u2014remain under attack in the halls of government and in our communities, passing these protections has never been more important. Learn more: https:\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-takano-lead-reintroduction-of-historic-equality-act-to-ban-discrimination-against-lgbtq-americans\/<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-22075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-civil-rights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Protecting our LGBTQ+ Friends and Neighbors \u2013 Merkley, Colleagues speak in Support of Equality Act - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/protecting-our-lgbtq-friends-and-neighbors-merkley-colleagues-speak-in-support-of-equality-act\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Protecting our LGBTQ+ Friends and Neighbors \u2013 Merkley, Colleagues speak in Support of Equality Act - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senator Merkley and Representative Takano led the bicameral reintroduction of the Equality Act, which would provide civil rights protections based on gender identity and sexual orientation. 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